Earlier this week Birmingham City writer Colin Tattum held his regular webchat with Birmingham Mail readers. Here are a selection of the best questions.

Ray asked: “Any idea who the potential new owners are?”

Colin Tattum: In regard to ownership issues, as you will have seen, Blues are in talks, formal and informal, with a number of groups. The parent company has now confirmed on the HKSE that two prospective buyers have signed confidentiality agreements. My understanding is that the groups are from India, Thailand and south east Asia area, plus Gianni Paladini's. No names have come to light, apart from the latter

Finn Blue asked: “DO you think Diop will be thrown straight into the team with Spector moving to right back?”

Colin Tattum: Diop's signing, on first sight, seems to be to beef up the presence in midfield and also allow Spector to go into the right-back slot, yes, while others recover from injury

Ryan Hughes asked: “why dont he play gomis and morrison”

Colin Tattum: In regard to which players make the matchday 18, I guess the manager assesses them in training, takes into account what they are showing, attitude and what they are like within the group and also looks at footballing reasons relevant to what he believes the team needs at that particular time. If Morrison was tearing it up and Lee Clark felt he could contribute to the team presently, I am sure he would be involved

Tom Campbell asked: “What happened? Things were so good not long ago. And now, even veteran fans who's seen us in lower leagues than this are saying that this is the worst it's ever been. It's getting very hard to support Lee Clark at the moment.”

Colin Tattum: To suggest this is 'the worst ever seen' is way over the top. Trust me, it has been a lot worse. It is not good at present but we are 10 games in to a 46 game season and the maddening inconsistency is concerning, as is the lack of real financial muscle to do much else than bring in stop gap signings

Colin Tattum: My friend Mad Malik....Again, to write Lee Clark off now would be premature. This job for me is tougher than last season's, when there was little pressure on all concerned. Yes, he has made errors, as have the players in their performances.

RIVERPHOENIX asked: “who in your opinion would be best to take over bcfc the italian consortium or someone who would be willing to actually spend some money and get us back up where we belong?”

Colin Tattum: Riverphoenix, I do not know who the groups are and what they have planned at this stage. Whoever does come in hopefully will not just have sufficient finance but a clear and coherent plan to run the club sensibly, addressing issues from top to bottom, from the offices, scouting and development of players, to the first team

Pelé asked: “Is the current dowmturn in form and performance solely the fault of Clark and the backroom staff? Granted some (most) of his team selection and tactical decisions have been at best poor and seemingly desperate when we fall behind. But the sheer lack of quality in the team performance and apparent lack of fight in all areas of the park cannot just be as a result of Clark.... After all these are professionals who all claimed when they arrived at the club they were here for the fight and to help at least come close to acheiving promotion? Any thoughts as to why there appears to be no passion or fight?”

Colin Tattum: Let's not forget that whilst Huddersfield was a 'down turn', the two performances prior to that, and the ones before Barnsley, were actually good. Now maybe Blues didn't get the wins in all of them but they were not useless either. And that's the frustrating; it is in there somewhere, just not brought consistently and maybe, as I've suggested before, this is where this team, this club is at right now, others are on the rise and better than Blues

Colin Tattum: Lee Clark criticising the players in public was a big thing to do. I know for a fact that he didn't just do it willy nilly, without thinking. I believe he was trying to provoke a response, to get others thinking about themselves and performances. He has apologised for Barnsley and carried the can for other displays (Sheff Weds, Watford) he was also as frustrated as the rest of us with a bad performance following on from a couple of decent ones and thought it was about time those who go over the white line needed a few home truths